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PlayReady DRM leak triggers Microsoft takedown and Amazon account suspensions

43 points by esseph 1y ago

userbinator 1y ago
09 F9 11... Too bad these certificates are a bit long to memorise, but no doubt Streisand Effect will have already happened. Meanwhile the "true" pirates still win, with no accounts to suspend.
- boobsbr 1y ago
  For those who don't remember, or those too young to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... I left Digg after that fiasco...
DoctorOW 1y ago
If these certificates were actively being used when they were leaked, are they sure that they only banned people circumventing DRM? How do they roll out new certs?
- esseph 1y ago
  Some are hardware based, sooooo.... Found additional info here: https://cybersecuritynews.com/microsoft-playready-drm/ https://cybersecuritynews.com/microsoft-playready-drm/
  - general1726 1y ago
    So you can't even roll the new certificates without bricking untold amount of devices. Well there will be a lot of new quality content on the sea.
trallnag 1y ago
Events like this show the advantages of a multi-polar world. For example, servers in Russia usually form a safe haven for material like this. Or at least a "safer" haven. The same is true the other way around. Content that is factually prohibited in Russia can be published in the EU. One good example for this is, TV Rain, a Russian media outlet I support and really like. They face prosecution in Russia and are now located in the Netherlands.
- chii 1y ago
  > a multi-polar world. what you want does not require a multipolar world. It requires that there be no regulatory capture, and representative democracy. It requires rule of law, but also not rule _by_ law (written with vested interests in mind). It requires civic citizens demanding it, and requires checks and balances.
  - exe34 1y ago
    One of these is feasible. The other requires people to obey laws so that laws can be broken.
drewbitt 1y ago
It has been cracked for years among the scene, this is just the spreading of some certs publicly.

43 points by esseph 1y ago

09 F9 11... Too bad these certificates are a bit long to memorise, but no doubt Streisand Effect will have already happened. Meanwhile the "true" pirates still win, with no accounts to suspend.

boobsbr 1y ago
For those who don't remember, or those too young to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers... I left Digg after that fiasco...

DoctorOW 1y ago

If these certificates were actively being used when they were leaked, are they sure that they only banned people circumventing DRM? How do they roll out new certs?

esseph 1y ago
Some are hardware based, sooooo.... Found additional info here: https://cybersecuritynews.com/microsoft-playready-drm/ https://cybersecuritynews.com/microsoft-playready-drm/
- general1726 1y ago
  So you can't even roll the new certificates without bricking untold amount of devices. Well there will be a lot of new quality content on the sea.

trallnag 1y ago

Events like this show the advantages of a multi-polar world. For example, servers in Russia usually form a safe haven for material like this. Or at least a "safer" haven. The same is true the other way around. Content that is factually prohibited in Russia can be published in the EU. One good example for this is, TV Rain, a Russian media outlet I support and really like. They face prosecution in Russia and are now located in the Netherlands.

chii 1y ago
> a multi-polar world. what you want does not require a multipolar world. It requires that there be no regulatory capture, and representative democracy. It requires rule of law, but also not rule _by_ law (written with vested interests in mind). It requires civic citizens demanding it, and requires checks and balances.
- exe34 1y ago
  One of these is feasible. The other requires people to obey laws so that laws can be broken.

drewbitt 1y ago

It has been cracked for years among the scene, this is just the spreading of some certs publicly.